Wrong way driver corrected and drove southbound on I-43, Milwaukee County WI

Traffic

Reported: 11/2/2025 01:36 AM

I-43, Wisconsin

A driver was initially traveling the wrong way on I-43 southbound near McKinley but corrected direction and continued driving southbound from the Marquette area.

Audio|Source: Milwaukee County Law Enforcement

02:40

Transcript:

00:00

Head for a wrong way driver, 43 cell on McKeely, Norbonne, and cell phone lane.

00:08

Okay.

00:17

Hi, just drive yourself.

00:20

Goet.

00:23

404, Lincoln, William, John.

00:25

6,000 lot call Leighton.

00:29

Tom.

00:34

Top v. 5A.8.

00:37

2-8 dispatches. TeamC have it on camera?

00:49

All right, copy, if we get it on camera, can we see where it goes in the market?

00:56

Bobby, stand by. We're gathering more information.

01:01

Copy, thank you.

01:04

The advice is done out of the black kind of Civic currently parked on the freeway.

01:16

And, you should be looking... Northbound lanes.

01:23

Southbound lanes. Northbound and Southbound lanes.

01:25

Northbound and Southbound lanes.

01:31

Is five... There's a park.

01:34

Is much for the air.

01:36

The vehicle is parked.

01:38

There's an ill ambulance on scene with her,

01:41

and now she fled.

01:47

AGF with R1080.

01:49

Yeah.

01:55

I'm still undercut right now.

01:59

Happy.

02:06

And all squads responding for the wrong way, she flooded her vehicle going the correct way. 43 southbound from McKinley.

02:21

Dr. Neat, C-9, you clip me on that.

02:29

Copy 3A.

02:37

She goes south from the Marquette.

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